Amitabh Lath

Electronic addresses:

Email: amitl -at- fnal.gov

Email: lath -at- physics.rutgers.edu

Email: Amitabh.Lath -at- cern.ch

Research:

I am interested in the High Energy physics. Specifically the
interactions of the fundamental constituents of matter (quarks,
leptons) and the forces that act on them. Non-experts, scroll down
to see a link to a talk I gave at a local high school on particle
physics.

The experiments in this field can be quite large, thousands of
people collaborate on building and running a single
experiment.

As a graduate student I worked at SLAC (Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center) on the SLD
experiment, especially on the
Compton Polarimeter , which is instrumental in measuring the
Left-Right Asymmetry of Z0 boson production (ALR, PhD. thesis). ALR
is the single best constraint on the Weak Mixing Angle, which along
with other measured parameters such as masses of the W and Z bosons
and the top quark, constrains the mass of the recently discovered Higgs
Boson -- responsible for the Electro-weak symmetry
breaking that makes the W and Z heavy and the photon massless.